OrthoVirginia Blog

Arm Fractures in Children

Summer's here and school is out of session, so that means children will be spending more time outdoors doing what they do best....running, jumping, skipping and tumbling. With increased activity comes an increased chance of injury. Forearm fractures account for almost half of all childhood fractures.

This common injury typically occurs when a child falls on an outstretched arm. Read more about forearm fractures: causes, classification, symptoms and treatments.

A green stick crack happens for the most part in the lower arm or leg, and is characterized as not a total break. On the off chance that you hold a green stick, and twist it, it does in fact twist, with a few sections fragmenting far from the bended part. The bone does not break, regardless of the possibility that the arm or leg is twisted, seriously, or somewhat.